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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THOUSAND HOUR DAY by W. S. Kuniczak. 628 pages. Dial...
Less fortunate were several thousand Egyptian soldiers still in Sinai. Trying to make their way home, they wandered in ragtag bands, thirsting and starving in the choking wastes, often lost, wounded and without shoes. Israeli loudspeaker trucks roamed the Sinai urging them to surrender. When they did, they were given food and drink...
...increased sufficiently to attract, in the absence of hostilities, at least two and one-half million men. There is no magic in this figure. It corresponds to what, a few years ago, was acknowledged to be the approximate "peacetime" level of the armed forces, less one or two hundred thousand that we believe might be replaced by civilian employees during the coming years. Nobody can exactly estimate the pay scale required to reach this goal; but pay scales must be set with some goal in mind, and this should be the goal...
...Vietnam on the University. Kennedy brought most of its members to political consciousness. As juniors in high school, they watched his long campaign to the White House, his urgent calls for an awakening after the long sleep of the fifties, his stirring inaugural and the first one-thousand days in office. Most of them felt the frustration of his failures in Congress on domestic legislation, as well as the bitter grief of his death. After 1964, the Vietnam war came to dominate almost all political activity and discussion, deepening that frustration with the established processes of government...
...life is less pedantic; "Born crosseyed. Abnormally farsighted. Corrected at four. Until then saw only large patterrns. Emphasis persisted after correction. Started young documenting against world developments, formalized as Chronofile 1917. Chronofile disclosed Newton's era world at rest supersded by Einstein's world constant change..." His four-thousand-word life history, written for the fiftieth reunion report, concluded, "Good luck for me I was born crosseyed...